On Tuesday, a widespread outage at Cloudflare , a major content delivery network (CDN) and web security provider, disrupted access to multiple popular platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, Shopify, League of Legends, and several other online services. Users worldwide reported seeing 500 Internal Server Errors or security challenge pages that blocked normal access.

The incident began around 6:00 AM ET (4:30 PM IST) and caused significant interruptions to websites and apps that rely on Cloudflare’s network infrastructure . Downdetector, an outage-tracking site, registered a sharp spike in complaints within minutes of the disruption.

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